Monday, March 19, 2007

I started to write a long, angry screed, but it kept getting longer and longer, and embraced a widening circle of related topics. The hell with it. I deleted all that stuff, and have boiled it down to a few simple points:

1. If Jorge Bush's mealy-mouthed argument for staying in Iraq ("getting rid of a tyrant and spreading democracy") was to make sense, it would have to include moves on Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and most of the rest of the Middle East, as well as North Korea, China, several African nations and, perhaps, the EU.

2. Jorge Bush is a solid contender -- against Jimmuh Carter and Bubba Clinton -- to be named the most incompetent president in modern times. Certainly, he is the dumbest.

3. Removing him (and Dick Cheney) will not, however, repair anything unless we rid Washington of as much as 95% of Congress (including all big-name Democrats and Republicans), everyone in the State Department and the majority of government employees in that cesspool. I think those working at the Smithsonian can stay.

4. Between Jorge's pitiful performance and the ranting, slavering Democrats who place power-grabbing, revenge and hatred of their opponents above actually helping the people who elected them, all pretense of public service has vanished.

This should be clear to any sensible person. Which is to say, any person who isn't stupefied by party loyalty.

To quote Jorge, "the fight will be difficult, but it can be won."

Only I'm talking about a different battle, one that will result in the government putting our citizens first in everything they do, not pandering to illegal immigrants and the would-be slave-owners who want them here, the big campaign donors and the UN.

I'm not terribly optimistic, but it seems our only way out of the looming disaster.

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I mentioned this in my journal but I caught part of the Conservative PAC event that was on C-SPAN a few weeks ago. I have heard and read a lot about Tom Tancredo and he was the one, out of Guiliani, Huckabee et al., that I wanted to hear. But I fell asleep. Grr.

Money talks in Washington, Scribbs, and big money doesn't want to hear what Ron Paul has to offer. There's nothing in it for them, corporately speaking. And without PAC mega-bucks to buy media time to tell his story, it's hopeless. Our system, which on paper is still magnificant, is in reality badly broken. A major house cleaning is overdue.

I hate to say it, but...I really believe the public at large is way too uninformed and short-sighted to do what's necessary to fix this mess. We're constantly grabbing short-term fixes, instead of paying the price for actual long term solutions...I think the whole thing will collapse before we wake up...

Scrib--you are one of the best ever at laying down excellent commentary. Please keep up the good work.It does me good to know that people like you think this way. It means maybe there are more. And you have a way of stating things that people listen to.Money may be buying Washington, but that does not mean other word can't get out. I'd much rather go down standing for what's right, than go down acquiescing to El Hombre